durin42 added a comment.

  In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2057#43892, @kevincox wrote:
  
  > On a higher level, all of these code appears to be treating file names as 
strings. This isn't really true and will disallow some valid file names. Maybe 
we should stick with bytes throughout. Of course this makes windows filepaths 
difficult because they are actually (utf16) strings.
  
  
  Mercurial tries to be principled about always treating filenames as bytes. 
AIUI https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WindowsUTF8Plan is still the plan of 
record there?

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